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Under pressure from Beijing to maintain social stability, local officials are also trying to tamp down unrest by doling out back wages.

For while some local officials may prove to have blood on their hands, the Chinese government has done all that could be expected of it.

Hu simply put the bike on his shoulder and walked to deliver help to a village where local officials were trying to cover up the problem.

Local officials in Nangarhar province said the victims were part of a wedding party and no militants were in the region.

These attacks are more likely to be the work of those close to local officials and building contractors.

In this case, he said, "the land issue goes much deeper because of the involvement of corrupt local officials" .

Local officials also revealed that this ammunition factory was just the day before the "base" organization of the looting.

But she and other local officials have been trying to craft solutions.

One of the local officials joked to me that he was just waiting for a plague of locusts.

Local officials said the fire was set deliberately to clear land but spread out of control.

Local officials said the raid was carried out in the pre-dawn hours and that American troops also confiscated computers and documents.

Local officials have warned that China faces a catastrophe if it fails to stop erosion and other problems around the reservoir.

The main reason for delay seems to be the inexperience or ineptitude of local officials.

He adds that this exception with its vague definition gives local officials the means to silence people who embarrass them.

However, the local officials announced publicly that this would never influence the implementation of safety standards for drinking water?

Dragon Boat Festival, local officials will gather for a retreat to the South, the city invited literati feast, known as the "Tap Liu. "

If the response were coordinated by a global agency, those local officials would not be so empowered.

On his way to Kuangtung Province, he was warmly greeted and entertained by local officials.

Local officials originally planned to hoist the boat on Saturday but changed their minds due to favourable weather conditions on Friday.

By Monday morning, local officials said the efforts had contained the immediate threat to the Yellow River, China's second longest.

Mr Qiu said the rapid development also reflected local officials' "blind pursuit of the large, new and exotic" .

He said that federal authorities had examined the case, determined that "no federal statutes applied, " and deferred to local officials.

The program was canceled a week later because local officials had forgotten to run the idea by Beijing.

On many stops we picked up friends, supporters, and local officials who wanted to be aboard for the next leg of the trip.

Local officials are under strict orders to see that their targets are met.

Local officials haven't begun to calculate the total cost of the damage.

Was it a traffic accident, as some local officials insist?

Local officials have privately admitted to me that joblessness is likely more than double the official figure .

So far, parents who lost their children have focused their anger mainly on local officials like the one in Mianzhu.

This time, Washington is pushing itself and local officials from the Carolinas to New England to get out ahead of the storm.

Local officials began enforcing a new rule at the start of the year that no longer permits drivers to take a day off after a six-day run.

The term limits, if any, applied to state and local officials are spelled out in state constitutions and local ordinances.

Once a crisis occurs, the company responds with experienced, trained command officers to coordinate security efforts with local officials.

A local party official denied that the children of local officials were involved in the girl's death.

Typically, local officials exploit the requirement to kick democratic candidates off the ballot, claiming signatures have been forged.

Today's job: Pretend to be an architect from New York and give design plans for a new museum to local officials.

For those companies stuck in Guangdong, hiring low-wage foreign workers is an attractive option, whether local officials like it or not.

At least six people were injured in the blasts, which occured within a half hour of each other, local officials told CNN.

Historically, local officials have been willing to look the other way when companies violated environmental, labour or safety regulations.

Then last week, fires that had been ignored for days by local officials began spreading out of control.

Pakistani troops have fired shots into the air to stop US troops crossing into the South Waziristan region of Pakistan, local officials say.

Liu Yao had been representing villagers embroiled in a land dispute with local officials in Dongyuan county, Guandong province.

But with local officials turning a blind eye, business is going on as usual once the sun has gone down.

"We call on the people of Shenzhen and local officials not to believe these rumours or to spread them. "

Local officials, many of whom were Sufis, started to put pressure on Salafis, forcing their spiritual leader out of Dagestan.

Local officials strengthened monitoring and prepared relief materials in case of landslides and mud-rock flows triggered by the heavy rains.

Beijing itself is choosing to maintain a wary silence, allowing local officials and ACFTU chapters handle events one factory at a time.

This past spring, the post suddenly gained an audience, and online critics scolded local officials for not doing enough to solve the case.

Local officials are often open to bribery, while politicians are prone to declaring amnesties for illegal buildings ahead of an election.

"A new law out of Beijing will not influence local officials. Without strong enforcement, our problem will remain unsolved. "

The heat wave first started alarming authorities in June, when local officials recorded abnormally high fatalities on Russia's beaches.

China also promises to crack down on land grabs by local officials without adequate compensation, a major cause of protests.

The American embassy in Beijing, to the annoyance of local officials, issues frequent air-quality readings for its part of the city.

"We want to bring justice for our children, " one father said the day before the protest. "We want the local officials to pay the price. "

Villagers claim local officials illegally sold land to a developer, pocketing the proceeds without properly compensating the residents.

However, local officials were quoted in the official press as saying they had yet to see real change.

Local officials say at least 25 people have been rescued. Several others swam ashore.

Local officials acknowledge that this is very likely a gross undercount and that the actual number may be five or six times higher.

The Caesium-137 may be buried in a scrap yard under tonnes of metal, and local officials believe it could have been melted down.

He says their new home is half the size of his old place because local officials cheated him of fair compensation.

A few dozen friends and local officials cheered as the two filled out the requisite form.

Local officials said a preliminary statistics released Thursday, the official figures and analysis to be released next year.

Coastal Taizhou is a hub of chemical production, and the big plant would be a feather in the cap of local officials.

Our correspondent in Kabul said local officials had told him they saw the bodies of about 20 women and children in two trucks.

But local officials said oil shipments from Dalian would not be restored immediately.

Su Su Nway successfully won a case against local officials who had tried to force her and other residents of her village to repair a road.

But the mayor, nor any other local officials, were available for comment yesterday.

Local officials have been traveling to Brazil and China over the past two years to drum up yet more business.

Villagers have been demanding the removal and punishment of local officials they claim were involved in a corrupt land deal.

Indeed, local officials are often perplexed when a woman actually comes forward to complain about the way she is being treated at home.

A portrait of Mr Mugabe hangs on the office wall and he maintains good relations with local officials.

Local officials suspect arson after discovering rags and small gas canisters at the site where the fire broke out.

At the Mission Hills site, one completed fairway has already been dubbed the "government hole" due to its popularity with local officials.

Samples have been collected by local officials and shipment to the WHO-affiliated laboratory is expected to take place early next week.

According to Caixin, local officials would take "illegal children" and pack them off to orphanages where they were put up for adoption.

Li is a chemistry major and said that local officials used him more as a typist than anything else.

He was disqualified as a congressional candidate in 2001. It was not immediately clear why, but he was well known to local officials.

But for other local officials, another trend may matter more: Investment by China into the U. S. is booming.

The city of Xinyang is a major alcohol production base within the region and local officials would often be given alcohol at lunch meetings.

In fact, it was delayed. Local officials pointed out a couple of problems.

He was believed to have been infuriated by a dispute with local officials.

The move came after local officials signed a deal with a militant leader to enforce Islamic law in the district.

Local officials have declined to explain how the redevelopment accords with the preservation plan but insist it is "absolutely legal" .

Local officials often claim to represent the collective and take big cuts from any deals, leaving little to the land users.

Local officials frequently vie for his endorsement of their latest architectural boondoggles.

Around Dongguan , local officials no longer seem bothered about pushing the region towards higher- value- added products .

Often they are jobs at a second- or third-tier city, where the presence of pale-faced foreigners is needed to impress local officials.

Mr. Kawakami, the developer in Misasa, has received visits from worried local officials over his plans to team up with Chinese investors.

Local officials, eager to meet development goals, often look the other way or even sell government-owned farmland to builders of new plants.

Local radio and local officials provide the most appropriate advice for your particular situation.

They were handed over to local officials in the Somali town of Adado, before being flown to the capital Mogadishu and on to Nairobi.

Local officials boast that the plant will be the largest structure made by man in centuries when it is finished next year.

Local officials have promised that the smelter, which produces lead and zinc, will not reopen until it meets pollution standards.

The prime minister Wen Jia-Bao and other local officials do not hide their high emotion toward the sufferings of the people.

After all, local officials appeared to have a motive for killing Mr Qian.

Increasingly, a few salaried Kogi who speak Spanish and work as local officials have the power to get things done.

An NGO reported that in June local officials in North Hamkyung Province cracked down on illegal movies from the ROK.

The root is not clear land property rights system, making it local officials colluding with unscrupulous traders and profiteering .

Local officials said that phone service was limited and that rescue efforts were stymied by a lack of heavy equipment.

Local officials in Beijing and in some other cities policed restaurants in attempt to improve the city's image to outside visitors.

Local officials could not be reached by The Wall Street Journal for comment Tuesday.

Scholars say the proliferation of such regulations stems from a lack of professionalism among some local officials.

Lots of polluters are the backbone of local economies, local officials tend to protect them rather than supervise and punish them.

Castresana seized upon a rule in CICIG'S charter that permitted the organization to petition local officials to punish unethical officials.

Allen has not conceded defeat, and his campaign says he will wait until a re-check of the vote counting is completed by local officials.

Some parents are allowed a second child if their first is a girl or if they suffer "hardship" , a criterion determined by local officials.

Journalists have fallen victim to local officials angered by stories uncovering corruption, and many have been killed.

Guided by news of the unfolding nuclear accident on TV and by local officials, townsfolk drove to the highlands, the center of the bow.

Without delay the French local officials named General Girard as the temporary administrator of North Africa to succeed Darlan.

These works reflect his term of local officials and exiled by the devaluation of life emotions and moods, often written sincere and moving.

Then each case must be reported as an "unnatural death" to local officials.

Shangji system still existed in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and continued to play a role in the assessment of local officials.

The death toll at the Pukkelpop music festival in Belgium, hit by a sudden violent storm, has now risen to five, say local officials.

The Shenzhen reforms have met resistance within the party, say local officials and academics.

The two surviving local officials who were involved in the assault have been fired, but no charges were brought against them.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but local officials have blamed Kurdish separatists.

The workers have withdrawn, telling local officials that they need further negotiations with the Gabonese government .

Still, binglang is a symbol of pride to residents, business leaders and local officials, who wave off suggestions that the fruit is harmful.

State media also tried to cool things down by admonishing local officials for failing to deal properly with the case in the first place.

Often, these lawsuits have been brought against land developers and local officials who have run roughshod over individuals.

"Local officials are already setting such [energy efficiency] yardsticks rather than looking simply at economic growth. "

Removing these shackles will require a shift in local officials' attitudes, but that will not happen overnight.

Fonterra Chief Executive Officer last week said local officials in Hebei took too long to issue a public warning of the contamination.

State banks have been lending liberally to companies created by local officials that make these investments.

One died in the hospital, prompting widespread outrage that eventually forced provincial authorities to sack several local officials.

Shandong local officials, including provincial officials and grass-roots officials had defense against the harass of the Nien.

Legions of farmers are angry that their land has been swallowed up for building by greedy local officials.

However, most critically, local officials and industrialists blamed their woes on banks favouring state-owned enterprises.

Local officials are judged largely on their ability to increase economic growth, so green GDP could become a stumbling block to success.

When local government's affairs were trivial, or their finance were strain, offten neglected as a matter of no urgency by local officials.

There were rumours that one reason local officials might have wanted him dead was to keep from being elected again.

Local officials suspected that the transmission lines had tripped due to dense fog and pollution.

Typically, facility operators and local officials have formal response plans and practice response operations.

Beijing has demanded that local officials not cover over or report less than full damage.

I know many local officials use numbers to show off their political performance. It's just like during the Great Leap Forward. . .

Regulations establishing minimum standards often are poorly enforced, as local officials focused on growth often look the other way.

Meanwhile, local officials from the Ministry of Agriculture's fisheries administration deny such corruption takes place.

In Taizhou, a city in eastern China, local officials switched off the streetlights.

The agriculture ministry's plan demands that local officials report suspected cases of infection to the ministry within four hours.

Several claim to have been beaten by goons hired by local officials.

The explosion also damaged more than 300 houses in 10 nearby villages and injured at least 29 villagers, local officials said.

Absent a solid judicial system, the pressure on local officials to maximize development has to be substantial.

Local officials were less inspired by religious fervour when they saw the pole and decided it was a safety hazard.

These urge local officials to balance the risk of flu in their communities with the problems that school dismissals could cause.

Authorities are also pursuing criminal verdicts against ten journalists for accepting bribes from local officials to suppress the story.

These urge local officials to balance to risk of flu in their communities with the problems that school dismissals could cause.

Eventually, local officials will be able to use GEM to upload local data and calculate risk for their areas.

We need to encourage our governors and provincial leaders, our mayors and local officials to spend a little more time comparing notes.

Maintain good relations with local officials, Customs and Tax Agents to ensure smooth cooperation and to obtain updated information.

The Education Ministry ordered a national inspection of school buses, and four local officials were suspended pending an inquiry.

Following a meeting on Saturday involving 1, 000 villagers, local officials promised an investigation this week into the land sales.

The company denied the allegations, but the plant was closed by local officials in 2004.

About 50 houses were destroyed and a landslide injured several people, local officials said.

Chinese Communist Party disciplinarians in Henan have long done battle with alcohol consumption by local officials.

They'll send a message to China's local officials and industrialists who often ignore national policies on cutting energy use and pollution.

Local officials saw promising projects turned into half-built skeletons, while banks saw spikes in nonperforming loans.

Local officials in New Orleans are preparing to take control of the nation's premier flood control structure.

Local officials are also planning free consultations for marrying couples to promote premarital check ups .

Buying protesters' silence is a frequent tactic of local officials, who fear that visible unrest may tarnish their careers.

"They are treating this incredibly seriously, " Ms. Seligsohn said. "Local officials are expressing anxiety about not meeting the targets. "

"They are treating this incredibly seriously, " Ms. Seligsohn said. "Local officials are expressing anxiety about not meeting the targets. "

One man, whom the government identified by only his surname, Sun, had been detained for spreading rumors online, local officials said.

Many petitioners bring relatively minor business disputes that local officials are unable or unwilling to resolve.

Police have surrounded the mosque and negotiations are taking place with the students for the release of the hostages, local officials said.

Local officials in Maguindanao recovered 11 more bodies from shallow graves on Wednesday, bringing the total found to 57.

There is a boundary -- kind of an implicit understanding -- between local officials and mafia-like gangs. '

Listen to the radio or watch TV for warnings about intense rainfall or for information and instructions from local officials.

Inside Crescent City's harbor, local officials say that more than 35 vessels were damaged by the tidal surges.

In the early 1990s, local officials encouraged peasants to supplement their meagre incomes by selling blood plasma.

Thus, the Bill of Rights contained no language protecting the peoples' rights against abusive state and local officials.

Thus, the Bill of Rights contained no language protecting the peoples' rights against abusive state and local officials.

The same local officials who were now parading themselves as rescuers of trapped workers had long turned a blind eye to the trade .

State-controlled banks were ordered to flood the economy with cash and local officials told to ramp up investment to jump-start growth.

The local power is the base of state power, so the governing group of the Tang dynasty attached important to the role of local officials.

Inside their colleagues negotiated with local officials and company management over unpaid wages.

Avaricious local officials gouge revenue by inventing new fines and administrative charges to levy on business.

Policemen and local officials were dispatched to restore order and negotiate with the protesters on Monday.

Although sales of dinosaurs are strictly illegal, local officials tend to look the other way.

In other countries, a range of independent, bottom-up channels help monitor and check the behavior of local officials.

Polls suggest widespread discontent, especially among farmers upset at land grabs by local officials.

Local officials said that this building two-story building in the local time at 9: 30 on the 20th soon after the sudden subsidence.

Polls suggest widespread discontent, especially among farmers upset at land grabs by local officials.

One grandparent blames the scandal on corrupt collusion between dairy businesses and local officials.

Jiangjin, a Yangtze trading post a half hour from Chongqing's urban core, illustrates how local officials created growth.

Local officials have tried to prevent journalists and foreigners in general from traveling to the sites of the self-immolations.

Local officials have begun an intense effort to clean up the algae by mid-July.

Aggrieved citizens regard local officials as predators and sometimes appeal directly to Beijing for help.

Providing adequate electricity, water, and housing to the city's 5. 4 million inhabitants remains an immense challenge for local officials.

The central government has cautioned local officials against being overzealous.

These urge local officials to balance the risk of flu in their communities with the problems thatschoolsschool dismissals could cause.

In other places, local officials have taken the housing for themselves. Luxury sedans parked outside gave them away.

Four local officials, linked with agriculture and quality control, were also sacked on Tuesday, Xinhua said.

The face of public complaints to local officials, Medvedev's neglect petition against the people angry.

The central government sent roving inspection teams to make sure local officials were implementing itsmyriaddecrees.

Branch managers often have closer ties to local officials and businessmen than to their own bosses, which breeds corruption.

However, promotions for local officials still depended in part on meeting population targets .

Four local officials were fired, including the man who served as the county Communist Party secretary when Mr. Xu was committed.

Fearing another earthquake, local officials ordered an evacuation.

But Beijing actually has major difficulties supervising local officials.

Local officials say the army imposed a curfew in the town after re-taking control of the buildings.

Local officials have closed the store and began an investigation.

After a briefing early Sunday, he warned local residents who evacuated to stay away until local officials say it is safe to return.

Beijing, too, faces resistance from local officials who have long been rewarded for maximizing economic growth.

President will meet with state and local officials in Biloxi, Mississippi and visit a charter school in New Orleans.

These urge local officials to balance the risk of flu in their communities with the problems that schooldisdismissals could cause.

Total state officials HeZhengJie fair selfless, everywhere for truly consider, is the famous cool and refreshing good local officials.

Local officials still care far more about generating growth than abstract goals like social equality.

Directly elected local officials seem certain to grow in importance as national politicians.

Local officials have even been told to donate part of their salaries to boost health funding.

Four local officials have been suspended for the accident.

However, news agencies also reported local officials saying aid distribution on the ground was slow.

Corruption or fraud that allowed local officials and the well-connected to pocket large sums of public largess won't be exposed.

Beijing can issue orders, but it cannot expect its orders to be carried out by local officials.

But Stephen Green of Standard Chartered doubts that local officials will take this quota too seriously.

Three days later, NZ officials are ordered to bypass local officials and inform Chinese government.

Local officials could now be fired for failing to take effective measures to protect the environment.

China's independent lawyers have long risked beatings and intimidation by local officials.

Firstly, having the local officials to process and resolve those complaints is a wrong strategy.

In October the Ministry of Health criticized local officials in Urumqi, Xinjiang for expelling 19 hepatitis B carriers from public schools.

About 300 Turkish troops move several kilometres into northern Iraq, local officials say, stepping up pressure on Kurdish PKK rebels there.

Local officials say they are looking into reports that some civilians were killed during the operation.

The project also shades into activism, providing contact details for local officials.

Local officials, by contrast, are notorious for graft, especially through land sales.

Local officials were already having second thoughts by the early 1980s.

Some victims are angry, but their resentment is directed at local officials rather than the central authorities.

the central government routinely calls on local officials and businesses to clean up their act to no effect.

They're also a signal to local officials to stop bickering over power usage.

In the Song dynasty, local officials were appointed by the central government.

The situation in Mong Cai is apparently tolerated by local officials but it is causing growing concern internationally.

So the central government has instructed local officials to shut down any small, dirty and unsafe mines.

a strategy on Iraq and Afghanistan before consulting with U. S. and local officials in those two countries.

But others complain that Washington has left local officials to sort out the problem.

The national endorsement has made it difficult to pin the problems on local officials.

Despite the outrage of child rights activists, local officials say there were no reports of injuries.

Local officials say the focus now is not on finding the dead, but rescuing the living.

The local officials presided over the festivity.

Not bad, but I have social engagements almost every night with local officials. It's really exhausting.

Local officials themselves benefit from the greater tolerance.

Local officials often claim that the need to renew old areas requires their destruction, critics say.

As importers, China's local officials infringe upon Chinese laws and regulations.

Yet central authorities have found their efforts stymied by local officials whose promotions are based on growth in their local economies.

The government has told companies in the eastern coastal regions not to lay off workers without approval from local officials.

Without cooperation from local officials nothing much will change.

In May, Ms. Hassett says, local officials ordered a temporary shutdown to check on the pipeline.

First and local officials in low-cost takeover plot to a local farm.

Responding to fear-mongering in the press, some local officials have taken extra measures.

Local officials had told residents they lacked the funds to pump water along existing pipes.

Local officials have a strong interest in keeping property prices high, since it is a key source of revenue.

This is why local officials could advise you to remain indoors if an accident occurs.

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